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The Council of the European Union on Monday extended the sanctions on the Syrian government and its allies for another year, until 1 June 2019, reiterating its commitment to reaching a lasting political solution to the Syrian crisis.

That “the European Union decided to extend the measures of compliance against the Syrian regime and its supporters until 1 June 2019, because of the continued repression of the civilian population, and in accordance with the policy of the European Union towards Syria.”

The statement said that “the Council has updated information on persons and entities on the sanctions list, Clear two people for their deaths, The list now includes 259 people, and 67 hand, targeted sanctions, including travel bans and the freezing of assets.”

US President Donald Trump has announced that the planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will not be held, which was to be hosted by Singapore next month.

“Unfortunately, after the tremendous anger and the outright hostility that emerged in your last statement, I feel it is inappropriate at this time to hold this long-planned meeting,” Trump wrote in a letter to Kim published by the White House.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Washington, Murad Hashim, said there was anger in Washington over what Trump called Pyongyang’s hostile rhetoric, commenting on a statement by the North Korean foreign minister, who indicated that her country was ready for a nuclear confrontation if the Americans wanted it.

The North Korean official said in response to remarks by US Vice President Mike Pines, who compared the North Korean case to the Libyan model, the second time the comparison was made, which angered Pyongyang. US National Security Adviser John Bolton previously made the same Statement.

The correspondent said the preparations for the summit were experiencing major problems because of a wide divergence in the positions of the two sides on major issues, including that North Korea has been demanding the United States to recognize it as a nuclear power, but Washington rejects it altogether.

Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore and hoped the meeting – described as historic – would lead to peace.

“We will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace, ” Trump said in a tweet posted on his Twitter account , adding that Kim was ready to negotiate over his country’s nuclear and missile programs. He said the upcoming talks should focus on nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea threatened on June 16 to cancel the summit between its leader Kim Jong-un and Trump and another high-level meeting with South Korea.

The cancellation of these meetings was prompted by the military maneuvers between the United States and South Korea (Max Thunder), which Pyongyang has long seen as an invasion drill.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited North Korea on May 9 and met during his visit with the North Korean leader. State television said Pyongyang had conveyed a new proposal from President Trump on the future dialogue between the two countries.

In what was seen as a goodwill gesture before Trump and Kim, North Korea released three Americans who had been detained. Bombay escorted them aboard to the United States, and Trump later received them.

The US State Department announced Thursday that Washington had expelled two Venezuelan diplomats in response to similar measures by Caracas. “A decision was made to leave the United States within 48 hours, And the Deputy Consul General in Houston.”

The accusations explained by President Maduro’s decision are unfounded: our diplomats carry out their official duties in accordance with diplomatic norms and the standards of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” Foreign Office spokeswoman Heather Nauwert said.

We reject any further explanation. “This comes in response to the decision of the Venezuelan government to expel the acting United States and vice-president of the US diplomatic mission in Venezuela. Earlier, Venezuelan President Nicholas Madudo, the US Embassy’s charge d’affaires, To leave the country within 48 hours.

Ammar al – Hakim , leader of the stream, Wednesday, that the consultations on the formation of the next government is going positively, noting that it would not be an Iranian government or an American but an Iraqi government.

Hakim said during a press conference held in Kuwait and followed by Alsumaria News that “the consultations on the formation of the Iraqi government is going positively,” noting that “the Sadrist movement is a key ally of us not today, but for many years and we believe that this bilateral alliance can be a solid nucleus” .

“We are very keen to remove Iraq from any regional or international axis, so Iraq remains for the Iraqis and it is their right to be friendly with everyone,” he said. “The next government does not think it will be an Iranian or American government. Iraq to have a good relationship with its Arab neighbors and Muslims and the international community in general. ”

Iraqis voted on May 12 to elect their representatives to the House of Representatives in the parliamentary elections, where the coalition ranked first with 54 seats.

Local security forces killed four gunmen who tried to hold hostages in a church in the Chechen capital of Grozny during a raid that killed two policemen and a civilian, authorities said.

“The gunmen infiltrated the Church of the Archangel Michael” in the center of Grozny and “sought to take her as hostages,” Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said in a statement distributed by Russian agencies. “An immediate security operation killed all four militants.”

Kadyrov stressed that ‘practical information that the militants have ordered the implementation of the operation from one of the Western countries’.

The Chechen president pointed out that ‘immediately arrived at the scene of the incident where he directly monitored the special security operation’, pointing out that their implementation ‘took only a few minutes’, according to ‘R.T’.

The Chechen president said the incident killed one policeman and wounded one parish, but the Russian Investigation Commission later reported that a second policeman and a civilian were also killed by injuries sustained by the attack.

Later, Kadyrov confirmed through his channel that the security services succeeded in identifying all four attackers, noting that three of them were residents of the outskirts of the capital Grozny. The fourth, the leader of the gang, descended from an area adjacent to Chechnya.

The president added that investigations into the attack on the church were continuing, including measures aimed at identifying potential agents for the four gunmen who had been liquidated.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri on Thursday called for an international commission of inquiry into the recent events in Jerusalem.

“Egypt affirms the right of the Palestinians to defend themselves,” Shukri said at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers.

“The meeting today comes one month after the Jerusalem summit, and the continuation of the crisis, which is the origin of the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian people are under occupation and the right to defend their legitimate rights.”

“East Jerusalem is under occupation, and the recent Arab summit has expressed this, and any transfer to any embassy to Jerusalem will remain null and void.”

US President Trump decided to transfer the embassy to Jerusalem, despite wide international and regional objections, which he described as a stark challenge to the norms and covenants and international laws.

The main reason for the decision of the US President , Donald Trump , the US Embassy moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem , is to increase the election chances of the Republican Congress , as well as for re – election for a second term in 2020.

This was reported in an article published in the Independent newspaper that Trump knew that he needed to go to evangelical Christians to the polls to cast their votes in the last presidential elections.

Andrew Bencombe recounted the strangest video of the Trump campaign, released in late January 2016. The most important part of the campaign was a direct appeal to Evangelicals in Iowa.

The video included a talk of Tramp holding a copy of the Bible, saying in a quiet voice that it was a gift from his mother to him, where “I wrote my name and address”, describing it as “something of particular importance to him.”

Will not let them down and then Trump pointed in the video to the polls that show his strong support among the evangelicals, thanking them and pledging that he will never let them down.

The day after the video was released, Trump went to the church and made mistakes in the rituals that only those who did not go to church did.

Nevertheless, despite sexual scandals and corruption allegations, Trump’s appeal to evangelicals remained high, with 81% of the votes cast in the elections. The number of evangelicals in the United States is 60 million.

Benkumbi said those who seek to explain the overwhelmingly conservative evangelical vote of a man who has married three times and has a casino and prides himself on his sexual assault on women should not look beyond the reaction of evangelical leaders and their statements about the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem amid the Gaza carnage .

The transfer of the author of many statements by the leaders of the evangelical community who express their thanks and praising Petramb, such as the statement made by the Chairman of the Alliance of Faith and Freedom Ralph Reed , a senior alliance of Christians: “We are grateful deeply for President Trump , who finally admitted the fact that Jerusalem is the unified eternal capital of Israel , The land of the Jews, and that the American embassy there must be in Jerusalem. ”

Father David Eswagarti said that the transfer of the embassy was not only a geopolitical incentive for Israel, but that “they see the transfer of the embassy as very important for the appearance of Christ.”

Some evangelicals believe that the transfer of the embassy will help in the coming of the resurrection, where all Christians meet the Lord.

The Rev. John Hagi said that 60 million Anglicans had been closely following Trump’s promise, because if implemented, that would mean history would be remembered and remembered by people for thousands of years, “for his courage in treating Israel as we do other nations.”

The members of the Security Council, the International minute of silence for the victims of the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza yesterday, the martyrdom of dozens of peaceful protestors who came out to denounce the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem.

The massacre killed 62 Palestinians and injured more than 2,770, when hundreds of thousands marched peacefully in the framework of the return march, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nakba and condemning the transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolai Mladenov, reviewed the situation in the Palestinian territories and called for the strongest condemnation of the acts that led to the deaths of victims in Gaza. He said there was no justification for the killing, stressing that the cycle of violence in Gaza must stop. The situation will explode, also called to avoid targeting children.

Mladenov called on Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to facilitate the exit of the wounded from Gaza, noting that hospitals in Gaza are experiencing a growing crisis, especially in basic medical materials.

A number of members of the Security Council also called for an impartial and transparent investigation into the events in the Gaza Strip.

British Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pearce said her country supports a transparent and open inquiry into the events in Gaza.

She also expressed Britain’s support for Israel’s right to self-defense, but demanded that it show restraint and ensure that its forces do not use excessive force.

At the meeting, Kuwait’s representative to the United Nations Mansour al-Otaibi strongly condemned the massacre in Gaza and added that Israeli violations would not have happened if the Security Council had confronted them.

Al-Otaibi expressed his surprise at the failure of the Security Council to adopt the draft press statement presented by Kuwait to denounce the Gaza massacre yesterday, and stressed his country’s support for any move towards the UN General Assembly if the Security Council fails to act to stop the massacre in Gaza.

Al-Otaibi stressed that the transfer of diplomatic missions to Jerusalem is contrary to international resolutions, pointing out that East Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine, and demanded recognition of the State of Palestine and its capital.

Disdain for the Palestinians

The representative of Palestine in the United Nations, Riyad Mansourhas called transparent international investigation into what happened in Gaza, referring to a acceptance Palestinian side advance results investigation whatever.

He said, “Why did you disregard the lives of the Palestinians? Do you accept that the Security Council remains paralyzed in the face of the disgraceful occupation, while 14 members of the Security Council call for an investigation by one member?”

Mansour accused Israel of deliberately using weapons that kill or lose physical disabilities during the face of protests in Gaza yesterday. He said that the occupation targets the children of Palestine “to break life in ourselves.”

He also accused Washington of ignoring the sensitivity of Jerusalem and violating international law by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transferring its embassy to it.

Israel’s representative to the UN, Danny Danon, said that the Palestinians had tried to enter Israel from Gaza. He said that Hamas was a terrorist organization hiding behind the children to achieve its goals by targeting Israel and inciting the Palestinians against terrorism.

For its part, he carried the delegate of America in the Security Council NKE Healey movement Hamas responsibility for the fall of the victims in Gaza, as it urged the demonstrators to approach the fence between Gaza and Israel, and considered that Israel exercised restraint over developments in Gaza.

Heili denied that the violence in the Palestinian territories was linked to the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem, arguing that the protests in Gaza are based on the rejection of the existence of the State of Israel. She stressed that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the capital of the historic Jewish people.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday thanked North Korea for its pledge to destroy its nuclear test site ahead of a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jun-on in Singapore. “North Korea has announced that it will dismantle the site of nuclear testing,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Month, ahead of the June 12 summit meeting. ” “The site of Bangui-ri in the northeast of the country will be in the presence of foreign press between 23 and 25 May. The dialogue brokered by Seoul, the transition of the United States and North Korea from the exchange of insults and threats of war last year To a summit between leaders of the two countries in Singapore on June 12.

But skeptics warn that Pyongyang must make a public commitment to hand over its arsenal of missiles capable of reaching US territory.

Mass rallies followed Friday prayers in the Iranian capital Tehran and other cities, to denounce US policies and Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran .

According to the agency “Tasnim” Iran, “The participants in the marches carried banners saying Trump and I was a revolutionary, and chanted slogans of death to America and death to Israel and our humiliations.”

The participants burned, according to the agency, in the marches of Tehran, “the American flag, condemning the arrogance of Washington and shirk its obligations in flagrant violation of international law.”